From Ashes to Sunlight

by Exia

Jack is cold-hearted and cruel. She has seen the worst the galaxy has to offer. But even she can change.

8. Snow

A/N: Same as before.

Cloakandshoot said: Snow

ooOO00OOoo

Shock. Wet. Cold.

She'd run from the merc group, fleeing to an abandoned mining complex on a level I cold hazard world. No one would follow her to this world. She'd be safe from them here.

But she hadn't been prepared for the snow. White, and densely packed, it had come down in sheets, stinging her exposed skin and making her teeth rattle in her head. She knew that snow was just frozen water, but that didn't prepare her for the shock of it to her system. She was barely fourteen, and had only been on her own for a year and a half.

She'd experienced much since then, but cold? No. Never cold. It shook her bones, made her skin tighten all over her body, and seemed to freeze her very nervous system.

As she huddled in the corner of a cave, staring out at the opening, Jack swore to herself that if she got out of this place alive, she would NEVER go somewhere cold again.